when is IPv6 coming?

[Makaveli2007]

I hope this fits in here? I dont know where else I could possibly put this.

Anyways, what Im wondering:

Will IPv6 be the standard and will all IPv4 addresses be transformed into IPv6?

When will this happen?

thx

[jtara]

When will the U.S. be energy-independent?

When will there be peace in the middle east?

When will Microsoft publish Windows source code under the GPL?

[Makaveli2007]

Not anytime soon?

[jtara]

How soon is never? ;)

There really isn't much of a need. We aren't running out of IP addresses.

At one time, it was thought that we would. But NAT eliminated the need, and turned out to have other benefits. At this point, anyone NOT using NAT to protect their internal networks from intrusion would be considered foolish.

NAT isn't going away, so now why do we need IPV6?

We don't.

I predict IPV8 will be adopted before IPV6 is widely-deployed.

[Makaveli2007]

Oh okay, the thing is I don't know that much about the web in general, yet being more into online marketing/SEO. So I made a point of learning what an IP address is and how it's constructed, what different classes are, etc. and once i knew that stuff I read something about IPv6 and that it was going to come soon, because too many IPv4 addresses had been given away to organizations that didnt really need them, etc. and that we were indeed running out of IP addresses. But seems like there was little truth to that ;).

[DamonHD]

I am hoping very soon to bring up one of my Web sites on IPv6 as well as the existing IPv4.

I only have to make a few tweaks here and there, but other things have intervened.

And I don't expect my site to get many IPv6 visitors for a long while yet...

Note that IPv6 is a natural for people like the mobile phone companies to give out a fixed IP address alongside each mobile voice number, so that phones could run mini Web sites or whatever at a known location. That is not directly possible at the moment because there really aren't enough free big blocks of IP addresses left in IPv4.

Rgds

Damon

[hawkerz]

I highly doubt IPv6 will ever go completely live. We've been talking about it for ages, compiling servers and daemons with IPv6 compatability, testing IPv6, for years now. It's kind of died out, and I don't think it will resurface as a viable option ever again.

[Jack_Hughes]

There really isn't much of a need. We aren't running out of IP addresses.

You sound like the guy at IBM who thought that we'd only need something like 4 computers in the USA.

A lot of people are having massive problems with NAT. NAT is fine in small companies/installations but it is a nightmare for larger installations.

[lammert]

The good thing about NAT compared to IPv6 is that it is backward compatible. If the IPv6 definition had been defined as a transparent superset of IPv4, it would have been adopted by know and would be used by many clients and servers. But the current way IPv6 works, it acts like an independent internet highway.